
This archive contains files to replicate the paper: Rahnama, R. & Williamson, M. "How Americans Evaluate Redistributive vs. Symbolic Racial Justice Policies" (2025). Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. 

Before running any code, it will help to open the RStudio project file ("jrep_rahnama_williamson.Rproj"). 

The following files contain the raw pre-test and full survey data, and the hand-coded open-ended responses: 
- survey_data.csv
- pretest_data.csv
- openended_handcode.csv

The following script cleans and formats the data for analysis. 
- clean_data.R

The cleaned data is also stored in /data as "clean_pretest_data.csv" and "clean_survey_data.csv". 

The following script runs the analyses in the main text and appendices. 
- analysis.R